Kurt-Peker Nominated for 2024 CSU Chappell Graduate Faculty Award

TSYS School professor of computer science Yesem Kurt-Peker has been nominated by the Turner College's Awards & Scholarships Committee for the 2024 CSU Chappell Graduate Faculty Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize those full-time members of the Columbus State University Graduate Faculty who, in the tradition established by William Chappell, have demonstrated excellence in teaching CSU's graduate students and have contributed outstanding professional service to the Graduate School, the University and the community. Kurt-Peker has demonstrated success in teaching graduate courses while a member of the TSYS School. Since 2018 she has taught sections of CPSC 6126 - Introduction to Cybersecurity and CPSC 6555 - Selected Topics in Computer Science. Over the past five years, her teaching evaluations scores for these two courses have averaged a remarkable 4.78 and 4.91 (both out of 5), respectively. In addition, Kurt-Peker supervised a graduate thesis in 2017 by Latoya Jackson. Their co-authored work emerging from that endeavor was published in a 2019 issue of the International Journal of Network Security. She also supervised a 2023 graduate thesis by Zeynep Delal Mutlu, the abstract of which was published by the 2023 International Conference on Cybersecurity and Computer Science. Kurt-Peker's supervision of theses by Zeinab Ahmed and Rahul Raj is currently ongoing, while she also currently serves on five thesis/dissertation committees.

Since 2021, Kurt-Peker has served as the Graduate Programs Director for the TSYS School. In that position she recruits new graduate students, assesses graduate program curricula, and manages efforts related to the TSYS School's exit exams for graduate programs. This administrative responsibility also places Kurt-Peker on the Turner College's Graduate Programs Committee as well as CSU's Graduate Council. In fall of 2023, she took on the position of Interim Director of Graduate Studies in CSU's Graduate School. In this university-level role Kurt-Peker manages graduate assistantships and organizes/facilitates CSU's Graduate Research and Writing Bootcamp. Service in this position also places her on the University Curriculum Committee and the USG Regents Advisory Committee on Research. Lastly, Kurt-Peker currently serves on the Georgia Department of Education's Computer Science Education Advisory Council and in 2021 she worked with GaLearns as a subject expert in developing learning modules on security in furtherance of the professional development of Georgia's teachers. The above is only an abbreviated list of Kurt-Peker's qualifications for the 2024 CSU Chappell Graduate Faculty Award, scheduled to be awarded in April of 2024.

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